You might be asking, “What is port forwarding?” Well, the short answer is that sometimes you need certain outside applications or equipment to access devices on your network – port forwarding allows specific ports to let specific outside devices and services access to your equipment or software. Read more here.
The below video demonstrates where you’ll be looking fort his information on a typical router, etc. Have a watch!
Part 1 – Basic Networking Information
Part 2 – Finding Your Router’s IP Address, or Default Gateway
Part 3 – Finding Your Router’s Default Username & Password
Part 4 – Finding Your Network’s DHCP Range
Part 5 – (You are here)
Part 6 – Finding a Static IP Address for Your Network Device
Part 7 – Finding Your Public IP Address and Setting Up Dynamic DNS
Part 8 – Locating Your Static IP Address Information
Part 9 – DNS & WINS Setup Best Practices
Stay tuned, the next video will be released next week, and don’t forget to let us know if our videos are helpful!
#1 by Mike Simmons on January 12, 2010 - 6:35 pm
This is very valuable information and I appreciate it. Do you guys do networking support at all? Is there a number I can call if something doesn’t work out?
#2 by joeltjen on January 13, 2010 - 7:11 pm
We do have a paid network support service. Unfortunately, there are simply too many variations in devices and networks to be able to give this service away or support it alongside our other equipment, but we do have professionals on-staff that take paid calls. You can purchase scheduled blocks of time via this page: http://www.apexcctv.com/t-Phone_Support.aspx.
Let us know if we can help you out!